In a person's life, they will go through a variety of circumstances, but some tea is indispensable in life.

On the evening of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the family had a reunion dinner, and Wu Qing said to make tea.

At this time, Wu Qing hugged the teapot and said, how many good teas are at home, all of which are honored by your juniors, which one do you drink?

As soon as Nong Tian said it, he made our own fried tea.

Wu Qing said, if you don't drink so many good teas, why do you have to drink this coarse leaf tea?

Nong Tianyi said, we are a family, not outsiders, so we don't have to talk about those good teas, besides, we have been used to drinking this kind of coarse leaf tea since we were children.

This "coarse leaf tea", Nong Tianyi was influenced by Mr. Teaching. His enlightenment teacher, Mr. Qi, is a native of Fengshan and often drinks this "coarse leaf tea". Therefore, Nong Tianyi slowly got used to drinking with Mr. Qi, and sometimes he really couldn't let it go.

Wu Qing couldn't help it, so he had to do it.

After a while, Wu Qing brought a pot of tea, poured it one by one with a porcelain cup, and said to his son as he poured, "Yes, when you were young, if a guest ate a meal of meat, I asked you to drink a cup of tea before going out to play, for fear that you would not digest well, so as not to go out and swallow the wind and burp food." ”

Nong Tianyi sat by the fire, smiled with hot tea in his hand, and couldn't help but put his nose close to the rim of the cup, inhaling the fragrance in the cup vigorously. The tea was hot, and he didn't dare to touch the teacup with his lips, so he could only stare at the yellow tea with his eyes.

Nong Tianyi saw everyone blowing on the tea with their mouths, and then couldn't wait to suck the hot tea on the edge of the cup.

Nong Tianqin said, this tea soup is thick, so delicious!

Danxia said with a smile that after eating the chicken cake and the skin and meat made by her stepmother, it was most comfortable to drink this tea again.

Bai Longjie also echoed, "This coarse leaf tea tastes different." ”

Nong Tianyi blew the tea, took a small sip, and the tea went down his throat, and a unique and very familiar fragrance infiltrated to the bottom of his heart.

He said while drinking that he had been out all year round and had drunk all kinds of tea, but it was still not as fragrant as the Fengshan tea fried in his hometown!

Fengshan tea, as the name suggests, is tea that grows in Fengshan and the surrounding area. Wang Xiucai once wrote in "Jingshan Essays": Three or four miles along the foothills of Fengshan Mountain, it is called "Tongjiajia", "Xujiajiajia", and "Wang's Villa", all of which produce tea, especially Wang's. The Tong family and Xu family are all in the southwest of Fengshan; Wang's is Wang's Villa, that is, Wang Xiucai's house.

Fengshan tea trees mostly grow at the foot of the mountain and on the mountainside. Unlike tea plantations in other places, most of them are built on relatively flat hillside slopes. In order to facilitate picking, the mountain people will cultivate the tea garden as flat and wide as possible, and cultivate the tea trees in rows, neatly and uniformly.

Fengshan tea plantations are mostly built according to the shape of the mountain, the size is different, the smaller ones, most of them are less than one cent of land, and some are even only one meter square, and only one or two tea trees can grow. There are also some tea trees that grow directly in the crevices of the rocks, or on the cliffs, which is quite a sigh of tea picking.

Fengshan Tea Garden is relatively unique, the tea trees are of different heights, and the tree shapes are also strange. Therefore, Fengshan tea farmers never prune the branches and let them grow, but every year in autumn, they can cut down the thorns and weeds around the tea trees with a sickle.

Therefore, after a long time, the tea trees are taller than people, and when picking tea, you need to take a ladder, or pull the tree pole down, and some trees are high, so you have to set up a ladder to pick tea. If you are accustomed to seeing tall and short tea trees, when you see a tea tree on Fengshan Mountain that is taller than a human head, it is very likely that these tea trees will be mistaken for ordinary thorn trees. It's not uncommon for people to make jokes about it.

Fengshan tea grows in the soil texture after weathering red sandstone, with high sand content, fertile and loose, suitable acidity, and has good natural conditions and natural nutrients for the growth of tea trees. The tea trees grown in this soil have fat leaves and strong buds, yellow and green oil, and a fragrant fragrance. The foot of the mountain and the mountainside in the Fengshan area are only about 100 meters above sea level, the climate is mild all the year round, the rainfall is abundant, and there is more diffuse light, and in spring and autumn, it is surrounded by clouds and mist, and several small rivers surround it, just like a fairyland on earth.

It is precisely because of this unique geographical and climatic environment that the unique quality of Fengshan tea has been achieved.

When I was a child, every time before and after the Qingming Festival, Nong Tianyi would go to Mr. Qi's Fengshan Tea Garden to pick tea. At this time, Nong Tianyi also suspended his studies, and these few days became his happiest days. After Nong Tianqin is a little older, he will also follow Nong Tianyi to the mountains to pick tea.

As soon as the day dawned, Nong Tianyi's grandmother had already cooked a large pot of rice, drained the rice soup with a basket, and covered the clay pot with it to steam. Because of the excitement, the brother and sister also got up very early that day, and when they got up, they could already smell the smell of rice.

At this time, Nong Tianyi's grandmother was serving rice in a clay pot, she put the steamed sausage on the rice onto the green onion board, poured a small spoonful of vegetable oil on the rice in the pot, and put a layer of golden pepper on it, and started the kang on the ember fire in the stove. Soon my grandmother put the pot aside, shoveled back a few large shovels of hot rice, put the cut sausage and the corners of the pot into the pot, and then put some tempeh and chopped green onions, and stir-fried them together, and then put them in a clean container and kneaded them into rice gnocchi.

Grandmother said: "The pot and the rice gnocchi are the Chinese rice you brought to the tea mountain to eat today."

The farm house has already prepared a back basket and bamboo basket for tea picking; Wu Qing boiled boiling water in the kitchen, made tea with a half-foot-tall yellow and shiny bamboo tea tube, and poured the brewed tea into two bamboo kettles. This is the tea to be brought to the tea mountain to drink. After breakfast, the family carried a basket and a bamboo basket and headed in the direction of the tea garden.

At this time, they came to the mouth of the Fengyang River. A group of people stepped on the pavement in the cobblestones and walked up the river, laughing and playing all the way, startling the chickadees in the mountains and forests. Soon, the tea picking team came to the destination - the large and small tea mountains at the northern foot of Fengshan.

Nong Tianyi always can't forget the scene of picking tea when he was a child, the boiling scene on the tea mountain. Everyone quickly dispersed, gathered together in twos and threes, kept picking tea in their hands, talking and laughing in their mouths, talking about interest, and singing "Tea Picking Song":

I went to pick tea in the first month,

February tea sprouting,

I don't go to pick in March,

Aged a garden tea.

April tea leaves,

Yellow seedlings planted in May,

Don't pick in June,

Hot and bad tea pickers.

Tea leaves are thin in July,

Ascend in August,

Don't pick in September,

No tea to eat in October.

……

At this time, the little friends each carried the bamboo basket, excited to run all over the garden, saw the buds are very happy, three times five divided by two to pick up, sometimes squatting to pick for a while, a tea tree in front of the hand has not been picked, just run to other friends to join in the fun, pick a while of tea, and panic to run to the next tea tree picking...... There is no order to talk about, it is purely like a chaotic battle.

But consciously, in less than a few hours, Nong Tianyi followed other friends to run up and down the entire tea mountain, and then the interest in picking tea also dropped to a low point, and the interest was gone. At this time, the friends naturally gathered together, climbed the rock wall, slipped the landslide, climbed the cedar tree, played with caterpillars, ate pot and rice lumps when they were tired of playing, and drank tea in the bamboo tube......

When the day moved outside the tea mountain, it was time to go down the mountain. The farmer shouted, and the men, women and children carried their backs, and they returned with freshly picked tea.

Along the way, there is not only laughter, but also the fragrance of tea in a basket......